In New Delhi: Quest Software has announced the completion of its acquisition of BakBone Software Incorporated, a provider of data protection software headquartered in San Diego, California, US.
As per Quest, the acquisition gives it additional technologies to offer data protection across heterogeneous physical, virtual and application-level environments, enabling organisations to support expanding data protection needs while simplifying data protection processes.
According to Doug Garn, CEO and president of Quest Software, Adding BakBone technologies to our existing portfolio of data protection products enables Quest to deliver an integrated, best-of-breed set of solutions appropriate for all organisations from small businesses to large enterprises. Our customers will reap the benefits, as we give them comprehensive data protection coverage at a lower total cost of ownership, and with the added bonus of world-class customer support, he added.
The acquisition was conducted by way of a statutory plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act. It was approved by BakBones shareholders and the Court of Queens Bench of Alberta.
The BakBone acquisition complements Quest Softwares growing storage management portfolio, which includes products such as vRanger and LiteSpeed, said Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. BakBones technology, such as deduplication, tape media management, and backup and replication support for physical systems will enhance Quests solutions, providing Quest a feature leap frog to be competitive in heterogeneous environments.
BakBone offers four products under the NetVault brand that provide continuous data protection, deduplication, replication, and disk-based and tape backup. Quest will market and sell the BakBone solutions, rebranded as Quest NetVault, as both a suite and individually available solutions.
Quest will unveil its strategic roadmap for the future of the BakBone solution set and its complementary data protection solutions by the end of the first quarter of 2011.
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